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While #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Twitter & #Amazon are laying off tens of thousands of people to satisfy shareholders, #Tutanota continues to grow.

Welcome with us Wren, Johannes & Noah! 🥳

Join us if you are a developer wanting to fight for #privacy!

tutanota.com/blog/posts/team-2…


#Microsoft is down.

Perfect time to replace your #Outlook with a secure #BigTech alternative. 🔒

Check out Tutanota and take back your privacy! 💪😎

tutanota.com/big-tech-alternat…


So the 2% revenue surplus came from #Azure.

#Microsoft reports Q2 devices revenue down 39% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13%, Xbox content and services revenue down 12%, and Windows OEM revenue down 39%.

theverge.com/2023/1/24/2356905…


Help upvote this Github issue to make VSCode just a bit more accessible: github.com/microsoft/vscode/is…
#a11y #VSCode #Microsoft


Wow, so the other day I shared what #Microsoft does when you search to download #Firefox from #Edge* but they go one step further for #Chrome.

(I have zero love for either surveillance capitalist but, my goodness, what absolute asshattery. Having spent more time than I’d like testing in #Windows these past two days, I constantly feel like some malevolent entity is trying to exploit me at every turn. Because one is. This OS is a case study in hostile #design.)

* mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109704475…

#web


If you are used to working with #Microsoft #Office, you might feel lost when working with @libreoffice. But did you know that with just two #LibreOffice settings you can make the user interface look similar to a Microsoft Office product?
geekersdigest.com/how-to-adjus…


PSA: Today Thunderbird 102.7.0 releases with a crucial change to how we handle #OAuth2 authorization with #Microsoft accounts. This may involve extra work for users currently using Microsoft-hosted accounts through their employer or educational institution.

READ MORE: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/01/i…

#Enterprise #Outlook #Exchange


PSA: We're aware of an issue affecting #Thunderbird users using #IMAP to connect to certain #Microsoft account servers (for example: outlook.office365.com).

These users are receiving an error message that says "User is authenticated but not connected."

We believe this is caused by Microsoft running certain services with broken #IPv6 functionality.

WORKAROUND: Disable IPv6 networking in Thunderbird's advanced config.

MORE INFO: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ou…


#Microsoft 365 - #Datenschutz in Absurdistan - sehr treffender Kommentar von Holger Bleich in der aktuellen c't:
"Es ist absurd: Auf die Pfoten bekommen eher all die Kunden, die Microsoft 365 einsetzen. Unternehmen etwa können ihren Beschäftigten keine schlüssigen Informationen zum Verbleib der Daten geben, weil Microsoft als Auftragsverarbeiter diese nicht vorhält. Deshalb verstoßen sie selbst, nicht Microsoft, gegen die #DSGVO.
heise.de/meinung/Microsoft-365…
#Datenschutz


Ich möchte kurz auf eine Analyse des LfDI Baden-Württembergs hinweisen.

"Bei der Nutzung der mobilen Outlook App (iOS, Android) speichert Microsoft die
Zugangsdaten zu dem E-Mail-Konto (einschließlich des Passworts) auf eigenen Servern,
verarbeitet alle ein- und ausgehenden E-Mails auf eigenen Servern und hat damit vollen
Einblick sowohl in Inhalts- als auch in alle Metadaten." 👇

#datenschutz #teamdatenschutz #microsoft #outlook #app

media.frag-den-staat.de/files/…


Microsoft-Befürworter halten selbst dann noch an ihrer Meinung fest, wenn die Fakten für das Gegenteil eindeutig sind. Woran liegt das eigentlich? Eine mögliche Erklärung liefert der Kommentar: 👇

kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-zu-ms…

#datenschutz #microsoft #teamdatenschutz #dsk #dsgvo #ttdsg


Would be great to see #governments not so blatantly endorse a product. 48 CFR § 1452.203-70 prohibits. #Microsoft
#Word should be replaced with something else. Maybe #OpenDocument Text? Wouldn't you agree @libreoffice?


Es ist für Verantwortliche Zeit, der Realität ins Auge zu blicken: #MS365 ist nicht datenschutzkonform nutzbar. Macht aber nichts, denn es gibt längst Lösungen im Bildungswesen, die sich bewährt haben und die Daten der Schüler schützen. 👇

Das Motto heißt: Endlich raus aus der digitalen Zwangsjacke! 💪

kuketz-blog.de/bildungswesen-d…

#FediZL #Twlz #Microsoft #Datenschutz #TeamDatenschutz


#MS365 Beschluss der #DSK: #Microsoft wirft deutschen Datenschützern "ausufernden Aufsichtsansatz" vor, "der keinen Betroffenenschutz mehr verfolgt" sondern #Datenschutz "zum dogmatischen Selbstzweck" mache

Starker Tobak - gerade weil #MS sowohl an den Besprechungen unserer Arbeitsgruppe beteiligt als auch vorab angehört wurde

Aber: Die deutschen #Aufsichtsbehörden sind sich einig.
heise.de/news/Office-365-Micro…


Frustrated that #Microsoft now forces you to pay a monthly subscription for #Office? Want to use an office suite that actually cares about its users, but still need to share documents with other Ms Office users? Check out @thelinuxEXP's latest video on how to make @libreoffice behave more like, and be more compatible with, Microsoft Office. youtu.be/G0che2Az9hw


Die Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK) ist der Auffassung: "Microsoft 365 ist und bleibt datenschutzwidrig." [1] 👇

Nochmal der Hinweis an Verantwortliche: Es ist höchste Zeit einzulenken und sich mit Alternativen [2] zu beschäftigen, mit der ein moderner und fächerübergreifender Digitalunterricht möglich ist – und gleichzeitig die Daten der Schüler geschützt werden.

#dsgvo #datenschutz #teamdatenschutz​ #ms365 #microsoft

[1] heise.de/news/Datenschutzkonfe…

[2] kuketz-blog.de/bildungswesen-d…


Automatisierte Scans: Microsoft sperrt Kunden unangekündigt für immer aus

Dass Anbieter wie Google oder Microsoft automatisiert nach strafbaren Inhalten suchen, weiß nicht jeder. Gerät man ins Visier, sind Konto und Inhalte verloren.

heise.de/hintergrund/Automatis…

#Microsoft #Outlook


Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides

rogermexico.bearblog.dev/micro…

Discussions: discu.eu/q/rogermexico.bearblo…

#microsoft #privacy


Everyone seems to forget why #GNOME and GNOME 3 and #Unity happened liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/8…

Another good reason to ban #software #patents. #Microsoft #Linux


TL;DR #Microsoft is (again) putting requirements on manufacturers (Lenovo, in this case) to effectively limit computers to only run Windows. @EU_Commission - I hope you are noticing and enforcing the rules we have to stop this kind of behaviour once again. Make it fast, please. Thx! mjg59.dreamwidth.org/60248.htm…


<<In other words, #GitHub's final position on #Copilot is: if you disagree with GitHub about policy matters related to Copilot, then you don't deserve a reply from #Microsoft or GitHub. They only will bother to reply if they think they can immediately change your policy position to theirs. But, Microsoft and GitHub will leave you hanging for a year before they'll tell you that! >>
lwn.net/Articles/899530/
sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/ju…


⚠️ TIL

:microsoft: If you use #Microsoft #Outlook, it scans all of your arriving #email and sends the URLs to #Bing for indexing.

😬 #infosec

scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…


Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.

scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…

#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing


Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!

drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Cop…

As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.

CC: @codeberg

#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg


Lots of understandable concern today as #Microsoft #GitHub announced their new #Copilot availability today. Probably worth a reminder that @conservancy has convened a working group on #ethics, #licensing, and other related issues, especially for #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource contributors.

Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?

Boosts welcome! :boost_requested:

sfconservancy.org/news/2022/fe…


Hey people!

If you use #Microsoft #Office be extra careful when opening documents or files from unknown sources. On May 31st a #vulnerability was disclosed, that allows an attacker to execute code through MS Office via maliciously prepared documents. It's best to open only stuff which comes from people you know or implement the published mitigation strategies:

🇬🇧 EN:
msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/0…

🇩🇪 GER:
heise.de/news/Zero-Day-Luecke-…

Currently I am not aware of a security update, so be careful.

#itsec


One of the good inpact of #Microsoft is pushing a laptop #security features that can be benefited also by #Linux.
For example #TPM2 can securely unlock your encrypted root linux drive without entering a password every time.
🔑 📀 :linux:
skorpil.cz/en/project/42/mkini…


@Bubu I don’t think that’s true. I heard a talk pimping #Matrix at #FOSDEM years back, and I remember because I was a bit repulsed that a pro- #Cloudflare org was getting talking time there. It was the same year that #DuckDuckGo abused a time slot to advertise their #Microsoft-driven service.